Category Archives: Hyperstar and SXV-H9C

Images taken with the Hyperstar and SXV-H9C Camera

M33 – The Triangulum Galaxy – Sans Stars

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The Monkey Head Nebula

The Monkey head nebula. A composite image using data from the original Hyperstar I on a Clestron Nexstar C11 SCT, with a tiny H9C OSC CCD, and two lots of data from the 200mm lens and an M26C OSC CCD.

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A Halloween Witch’s Broom

All the data I have all put together to give this image of the Witch’s Broom nebula.

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Sometimes Your First Guess Turns Out to be the Best

Well this is quite extraordinary. I discovered a huge pile of DVDs last week and I just spent a few days downloading them all onto an HDD. The data was all very old (mostly around 2005) and is all taken … Continue reading

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The Heart of the Rose

This is the central region of the Rosette nebula. This is a composite image created using RegiStar and comprises original Hyperstar, Sky90 and Hyperstar 4 data exceeding 15-hours of total exposure time.

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The Cygnus Wall

I dug out some very old (but very nice) data from a LONG time ago. This is an image of the Cygnus Wall taken with the original Hyperstar (no collimation or camera rotation adjusters) and a tiny little H9C OSC … Continue reading

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The Cygnus Wall

A real blast from the past. Just came across this one and tarted it up a little on Paint Shop Pro. This is the Cygnus Wall region of the North America Nebula. I cannot remember the year this was taken … Continue reading

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The Coma galaxy cluster, Fritz Zwicky, and Dark Matter.

This is an original Hyperstar (no collimation or camera angle adjusters) and SX H9C OSC CCD image of the Coma cluster of galaxies. This galaxy cluster was made famous by Fritz Zwicky who studied the cluster, and by applying the … Continue reading

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The Pelican nebula and the Cygnus Wall get the Registar treatment

Once again several different datasets have been combined using Registar and slightly processed to give these rather deep results.

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The Running Man nebula – the full Monty

Managed to process the full width of this image which I didn’t think I’d manage to do when I started on this one earlier today.

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